ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday signed an Early Harvest Programme (EHP) to reduce tariffs on eight agricultural items for one year, laying the foundation for a broader preferential trade agreement (PTA) between the two countries. The EHP, which takes effect on Aug 1, will remain in force for one year and is renewable. It also allows for the future inclusion of additional items, making it the first tangible step towards launching negotiations on a comprehensive PTA. The agreement was signed by Pakistan’s Commerce Secretary, Jawad Paul, and Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, Mullah Ahmadullah Zahid, who was accompanied by a delegation of senior technical officials. The Afghan delegation arrived in Islamabad on Monday night to hold detailed negotiations with Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce. Under the agreement, tariffs on four Afghan agricultural exports to Pakistan — grapes, pomegranates, apples, and tomatoes — and four Pakistani exports to Afghanistan — mangoes, kinnows, b...
Во время реставрационных работ в церкви дворца в городе Бух в Германии исследователи обнаружили одиночную могилу, которая, как считается, датируется концом XVIII века. Открытие вызвало вопросы о том, кто был похоронен и почему это захоронение было отделено от других.
ISLAMABAD - A delegation of the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) of the National Assembly, led by President YPF, Syeda Nosheen Iftikhar, MNA, called on the Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, Capt (Retd) Abdul Khaliq Khan Achakzai, in Quetta.
Na een lange periode van tegenvallende vraag in de chipindustrie ziet het bedrijf de markt nu aantrekken, zo meldt het bij de cijfers over het tweede kwartaal.
Украина не контролирует около 20 процентов своей территории — и осознать это достаточно просто. Для этого бывший военнослужащий Юрий Гудименко предлагает представить, что вы не контролируете 20 процентов своего тела...
Украина оставляет предложение о встрече глав государств в силе. А Владимир Зеленский готов говорить с Путиным, если тот проявит готовность обсудить завершение войны.
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Columbia University said on Wednesday it will pay $200 million to the US government after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal funding over what he said was its unwillingness to protect Jewish students. In a sweeping deal that will restore the prestigious New York institution’s federal monies, Columbia has pledged to obey rules that bar it from taking race into consideration in admissions or hiring, among other concessions. “Columbia University has reached an agreement with the United States government to resolve multiple federal agency investigations into alleged violations of federal anti-discrimination laws,” a statement said, adding that the $200m would be paid over three years. The university will also pay $21m to settle investigations brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it said. “Under today’s agreement, a vast majority of the federal grants which were terminated or paused in March 2025 will be reinstated and Columbia’s access to billions of dollars in current and fut...
Deborah Lyons had been serving as Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism since she took the job soon after Hamas’s October 7 massacre.